What can you do with Vision BASIC? Pretty much anything you want to. Speed will no longer be a problem! Why? Because on it's own, Vision BASIC is VERY fast! But when you need to crank out even more speed, all you need to do is insert machine language anywhere you wish to. Yes, you can actually type machine language instructions right next to BASIC commands! You won't need to load in external machine language files, and you won't need to poke machine language code to memory. This is because Vision BASIC also doubles as an assembler – you can write BASIC programs with it or machine language programs with it, or a blend of the two!
Vision BASIC also includes a whole new batch of commands to help you realize your programming dreams! Need sprites? Vision BASIC's got you covered! Need sound and graphics? Yep, gotcha covered there too! Vision BASIC was designed to greatly minimize your need to POKE around with all those crazy registers. In fact, you might never need to POKE again! And if you find yourself needing a command or function that isn't available, you can simply create it yourself – by creating the needed subroutine and calling it by whatever name you choose to give it. These "user defined" commands and functions can be saved into separate files and added to your programs whenever you need them!
The story of Mel (a real programmer). Annotated.
flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips. It is designed to flash BIOS/EFI/coreboot/firmware/optionROM images on mainboards, network/graphics/storage controller cards, and various other programmer devices. Supports more than 476 flash chips, 291 chipsets, 500 mainboards, 79 PCI devices, 17 USB devices and various parallel/serial port-based programmers. Supports parallel, LPC, FWH and SPI flash interfaces and various chip packages. No physical access needed, root access is sufficient (for mainboards, presumably).
Notes on how to use the minipro F/OSS chip programming software. Because the docs are missing important stuff, like how to use it.
Cloned to Windbringer.
An open source program for controlling the MiniPRO TL866xx series of chip programmers. This program exists because the manufacturer of the MiniPRO TL866xx series of chip programmers does not provide a program for use on Linux or other flavors of Unix. We who keep this project going prefer a simple, free, and open-source program that presents a command-line interface that allows for a GUI front-end if desired.
Compatible with Minipro TL866CS, TL866A, and TL866II+ from Autoelectric. Supports more than 13000 target devices (including AVRs, PICs, various BIOSes and EEPROMs).
It's even in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minipro
The official, canonical documentation for batari BASIC.
batari Basic (bB) is a BASIC-like language for creating Atari 2600 games. It is a compiled language that runs on a computer, and it creates a binary file that can be run on an Atari 2600 emulator or the binary file may be used to make a cartridge that will operate on a real Atari 2600.
A reference for batari BASIC, a compiled dialect of BASIC for the Atari 2600.
Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers unofficial PDF and LaTeX source. Has a direct link to the PDF as well as links to buy the dead tree if you find it useful.
This is an unofficial PDF version of "Category Theory for Programmers" by Bartosz Milewski, converted from his blogpost series (with permission!)
A simple interactive BASIC interpreter written in Python 3. It is based heavily on material in the excellent book Writing Interpreters and Compilers for the Raspberry Pi Using Python by Anthony J. Dos Reis. However, I have had to adapt the Python interpreter presented in the book, both to work with the BASIC programming language and to produce an interactive command line interface. The interpreter therefore adopts the key techniques for interpreter and compiler writing, the use of a lexical analysis stage followed by a recursive descent parser which implements the context free grammar representing the target programming language.
The interpreter is a homage to the home computers of the early 1980s, and when executed, presents an interactive prompt ('>') typical of such a home computer. Commands to run, list, save and load BASIC programs can be entered at the prompt as well as program statements themselves.
The BASIC dialect that has been implemented is slightly simplified, and naturally avoids machine specific instructions, such as those concerned with sound and graphics for example.
How to add support for configuration files to your shell scripts.
miniforth is a real mode FORTH that fits in an MBR boot sector. The following standard words are available:
+ - ! @ c! c@ dup drop swap emit u. >r r> [ ] : ; load
Additionally, there is one non-standard word. s: ( buf -- buf+len ) will copy the rest of the current input buffer to buf, and terminate it with a null byte. The address of said null byte will be pushed onto the stack. This is designed for saving the code being ran to later put it in a disk block, when no block editor is available yet.
The dictionary is case-sensitive. If a word is not found, it is converted into a number with no error checking. For example, g results in the decimal 16, extending the 0123456789abcdef of hexadecimal. On boot, the number base is set to hexadecimal.
Backspace works, but doesn't erase the input with spaces, so until you write something else, the screen will look a bit weird.
See the blogpost, Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes, for my motivation for writing this and the details of the code.
Hey! I'm @rstacruz and this is a modest collection of cheatsheets I've written.
I don’t want this to be Vega’s Opinionated Big Ass Book To Give You An All-In-One Education, both because VegaOpBABTGYAAIOEdu is far less catchy, and because I don’t even think it’s possible. The more I write on this the more I value input of others and other resources I find, and the more happy I am that I called this project Opinionated Guides.
A Guide. That’s what I want this to be. I want OpGuides to be a resource that’s like your friend you can come back to for advice on where to go next, and I think that’s something the internet really needs. Search engines are were awesome for finding information, but only when you know what to look for, so I figure OpGuides can be a sort of curated information source, with the crappy results filtered out, the best resources I know of included, and a healthy mix of entertainment in the education so that it’s not a chore to read.
Slingcode is a personal computing platform in a single html file. You can make, run, and share web apps with it. You don't need any complicated tools to use it, just a web browser. You don't need a server, hosting, or an SSL certificate to run the web apps. You can put Slingcode on a web site, run it from a USB stick, laptop, or phone, and it doesn't need an internet connection to work. You can "add to home screen" in your phone's browser to easily access your library of programs on the go. You can share apps peer-to-peer over WebTorrent. It's private. You only share what you choose.
Everything is kept in the browser's localstorage system.
It's written in Clojurescript with a bunch of dependencies, but the output is a single HTML page that you can drop anywhere. Probably easier to download it from the website (as recommended) and drop it someplace.
The classic book BASIC Computer Games, published by Creative Computing, inspired a generation of programmers. The games were written by many people, and compiled by David H. Ahl. The fabulous illustrations accompanying each game were done by George Beker.
I've included all the games here for your tinkering pleasure. I've tested and tweaked each one of them to make sure they'll run with Vintage BASIC, though you may see a few oddities. That's part of the fun of playing with BASIC: it never works quite the same on two machines. The games will play better if you keep CAPS LOCK on, as they were designed to be used with capital-letter input.
A curated list of awesome articles about falsehoods programmers make about things which are simply untrue.
In this book we will create a programming language together.
We'll start with 0 lines of code and end up with a fully working interpreter for the Monkey* programming language.
Step by step. From tokens to output. All code shown and included. Fully tested.
Through years of trial and error - skipping around internet radio stations, playing our entire music collections on shuffle, or just hammering single albums on repeat, we have found that the most effective music to aid prolonged periods of intense concentration tends to have a mixture of qualities. This is a site of mixes contributed by various people to hack to.